Moses und Aron

InfoMoses und Aron (English: Moses and Aaron) is a three-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg with the third act unfinished.more...The German libretto is by the composer after the Book of Exodus.

Photographed on a stage in black-and-white (with a pre-credits sequence showing the orchestra tuning up), the film was one of three films by Straub and Huillet based on Schoenberg works.Earlier, they had directed a film version of his unfinished opera Moses und Aron.…

Schoenberg intended Moses und Aron as his operatic masterpiece, but it was left unfinished at his death.

The instrument is not often used in classical music, but it appears in the work of Aram Khachaturian, Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Honegger Hans Werner Henze and others.Schoenberg employed it in his Variations for Orchestra and his unfinished opera Moses und Aron.The best known example is by Khachaturian, who wrote for it in his Piano Concerto (1936), where it doubles the violin melody in the second movement (though here the flexatone is now often omitted).…

Her last appearance on stage was on 22 November 1976 in Schoenberg's Moses und Aron.

The report which he filed in the original design competition borrowed the form of the Gedenkbuch.Libeskind, a musician himself, took inspiration from music and considered the museum the final act of Arnold Schoenberg's unfinished opera, Moses und Aron.Walter Benjamin's One Way Street's 60 sections determined the number of sections that comprise the museum's zigzag section.…

He is best known today for portraying the role of Moses in the original 1954 production of Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron.

They were composed between 1928 and 1931 and were Schoenberg's last works for piano.Schoenberg's Piano Pieces were just some of the smaller compositions that he made after finishing Von Heute auf Morgen and Moses und Aron.…

Helmut Kretschmar (born 3 February 1928) is a German classical tenor who spent most of his career performing in concerts and recitals with major orchestras and at important music festivals internationally.Although he focused his career mainly within the concert repertoire, Kretschmar did appear two times on the opera stage, notably singing in the world premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron in 1954.…

Schott published major works, from early orchestral works such as Feu d'artifice and Scherzo fantastique and the complete L'Oiseau de feu (The Firebird) to the Violin Concerto, Symphony in C and Symphony in Three Movements.Schott also published several major scores of Arnold Schoenberg, including Moses und Aron and Von Heute auf Morgen.Schott established lifelong working relationships with Paul Hindemith and Carl Orff, and this commitment between composer and publisher has defined the character of the catalogue, involving some of the greatest composers of their time.…

At her request Schoenberg's (ultimately unfinished) piece, Die Jakobsleiter was prepared for performance by Schoenberg's student Winfried Zillig.After her husband's death in 1951 she founded Belmont Music Publishers devoted to the publication of his works, and was also a key figure in bringing about the premiere of Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron.…

Schoenberg used the play as an instrument of propaganda to promote the idea of a militant United Jewish Party.Although the play shares a biblical source of inspiration with Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron, the play, a largely political work, has a very different focus from that of the opera, which is concerned chiefly with questions of theology and aesthetics.…

The work was Tristan und Isolde with Kirsten Flagstad; as it was announced in advance that this would be her last appearance in the role of Isolde and her farewell performance at Covent Garden, the fact that it was also Rankl's farewell received little attention.He was never invited to conduct there again, and did not set foot in the building for another 14 years, until 1965 for the first night of Moses und Aron by his old teacher, Schoenberg; the conductor then was Georg Solti.After the end of the 1951 London season, Rankl conducted the Covent Garden company on tour; his final performance with the company was Der Rosenkavalier in Liverpool on 27 July 1951.…

That year Rosbaud became the first chief conductor of the South West German Radio Orchestra in Baden-Baden, where he remained for the rest of his life.In 1954, he conducted the first performance of Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron at 8 days' notice; this performance was issued on a 1957 commercial recording for Philips.He regularly took the SWR Symphony Orchestra to festivals of contemporary music, such as at Donaueschingen.…

He notably appeared as Florestan in the company's 1968 film of Beethoven's Fidelio, opposite Anja Silja.He also portrayed Aron in a critically acclaimed 1974 production of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron with the company which was later recorded under conductor Pierre Boulez.…

In 1951, he sang in the world premiere of Hans Werner Henze's radio opera Ein Landarzt.On 12 March 1954, he sang the role of Moses in the world premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron.This original production was performed in a concert version, but Fiedler reprised the role for the opera's first staged performance at the Zurich Opera House on 6 June 1957.…

Between 1950-1955, Rieth participated in numerous radio broadcasts of live concerts in Northwest Germany.He notably sang the role of the Ephraimite in the world premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron on 12 March 1954.He also sang in the premiere of Darius Milhaud's opera David.…

During its 1975 run at US festivals, it was also known as Aaron and Moses, and was frequently reviewed as such.It is one of three films based on Schoenberg works Straub and Huillet directed, the other two being Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene, a short film made directly before Moses und Aron, and, over two decades later, an adaptation of the one-act comic opera Von heute auf morgen.The film retains the unfinished nature of the original opera, with the third act consisting of a single shot (with no music) as Moses delivers a monologue based on Schoenberg's notes.…

Moses und Aron has its roots in Schoenberg's earlier agitprop play, Der biblische Weg (The Biblical Way, 1926-27), a response in dramatic form to the growing anti-Jewish movements in the German-speaking world after 1848 and a deeply personal expression of his own "Jewish identity" crisis.The latter began with a face-to-face encounter with anti-Semitic agitation at Mattsee, near Salzburg, during the summer of 1921, when he was forced to leave the resort because he was a Jew, although he had converted to Protestantism in 1898.…

That same year, he embarked on a career as a concert tenor, often appearing in the oratorios and other concert works of Mendelssohn and Haydn.He sang the role of the Youth in the world premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron on the 12 March 1954 under conductor Hans Rosbaud.His only other opera role was as Florestan in Beethoven's Fidelio which he recorded.…